TEDxSanDiego 2011 - Viet (Jon) Nguyen - NASA Eyes on the Solar System

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TEDxSanDiego 2011 - Viet (Jon) Nguyen - NASA Eyes on the Solar System

Jon graduated from UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science in June 2009 with a B.S. Degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He was the Chairman of the student branch of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics at UCLA. Jon is currently the principal architect and lead programmer for NASA's "Eyes on the Solar System" software, which uses video-game technology to recreate the solar system and the spacecraft that explore it within a web-browser. He joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Visualization Technology Applications and Development group in November of 2009 after serving 9 months as an academic part-time engineer in the Mars Science Laboratory project while a senior at UCLA.